How to develop an impactful transdisciplinary project trough co-creation? Design principles and best practice example case study from Failand to Winland.
4. Sustainability challenges needs new ways of
collaboration, knowledge production
and decision-making
HOW CAN SCIENCE HELP TO SOLVE THESE
CHALLENGES?
5. TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Rexflexive, integrative method-driven scientific principle
aiming at the solution or transition of societal problems
and concurrently of related scientific problems by
differentiating and integrating knowledge from various
scientific and societal bodies of knowledge
- Daniel Lang et al. 2012
6. Knowledge production beyond problem analysis and
towards transformation and change
Involvement of various communities of knowledge
Co-creation of research among scientists and
stakeholders
Design principles
7. Knowledge production beyond problem analysis and
towards transformation and change
● focus on societally relevant problems
● knowledge for both scientific and societal practice
Knowledge concerning the
current situation
SYSTEM’S KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge concerning the
target situation
TARGET KNOWLEDGE
Shaping the transition from the
current to the target situation
TRANSFORMATION KNOWLEDGE
IMPLEMENTATION
From: ProClim, Research on Sustainability
and Global Change - Visions in Science Policy
by Swiss Researchers, 1997
Design principle I
9. IMPACT
CO-CREATION
COMMUNICATION
RESEARCH
INTERACTION
CHANGE
Agency: capabilities, motivation
Understanding and learning: roles
and responsabilities
Shared experience and
anticipation: allies, partnerships
New paradigm / systemic change
Incremental change
Society: Public opinion, policy, laws,
structures
Organization: Code of conduct, new
products and services
Individual: News way of thinking and
acting
Knowledge products: articles, reports, policy briefs
etc
Other products: patents, technologies etc
Concepts: New models for products, business etc
Networks
10. Involvement of various communities of knowledge:
Various disciplines
● Scientific excellence (e.g. research questions are scientifically sound)
● Broader and alternative perspectives and time frames
● Understanding of the interconnections and background of the
phenomena
People outside academia - stakeholders
● integrate the best available knowledge on real life practices
● values, norms and preferences
● create ownership for solutions and options
STAKEHOLDER:
Person/group affecting or affected by the research
A gatekeeper who can promote or inhibit transformation in society.
NGO’s, business, ministries, decision-makers, citizens
Design principle II
11. Co-creation of research
Challenge: How to promote transformation?
● Increase in knowledge does not correlate with change of actions
● lack of knowledge of real-world practices
Solution:
● Co-creation: Joint framing of research problems, questions and
co-production of knowledge among researchers and stakeholders
● Impact collaboration: scientific and societal impact
Benefits:
● knowledge that answers to stakeholders needs, that is credible and
useful for them
● Continuous dialogue anticipates and mitigates conflicts
● Enforcing the capabilities of stakeholders to understand research and
research results - easier communication of results
Design principle III
12. Preliminary collaboration:
Identifying stakeholders and
mapping needs
Co-creation in a research project
Co-creation of policy
recommendations and key
messages
Dissemination and
implementation of results in
scientific and societal
practice
Joint framing of research
problems, questions and
end-products
Research phase: interviews,
consutaltion and collaboration
CO
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CO-PRODUCTION OF
RESEARCH
CO-DESIGN OF
RESEARCH
TRANSFORMATION
IMPACT
COLLABORATION
Adopted from Future Earth Initial
Design Report 2012
15. • Strategic research funding instrument by the
Academy of Finland
• Themes proposed by the Prime Minister’s Office:
Skilled Employees – Successful Labour Market,
Health, Welfare and Lifestyles, Security in a
Networked World, Urbanising Society
• 13 consortiums in 2016–2019 - total funding 50,2
million €
Funding
16. Why Winland?
Kuva: Marko Keskinen
CHALLENGE: traditional focus on political and economical changes,
environmental security security, i.e. food, energy and water security
and their connections crucial to comprehensive security
What kind of security threats and risks
could paralyse Finland so fundamentally
that “Winland becomes “Failand”?
HYPOTESES (Security equation): Sudden shocks and slowly developing
pressures to our energy and food system and wrong and insufficient policy
measures can threaten Finland’s comprehensive security in the future
17. What is Winland?
How do the shocks, pressures and policy measures affect
comprehensive security of Finland? How can we improve resilience of
Finnish society to food and energy security-related threats?
The key scientific objectives:
i) to study in interdisciplinary manner the critical
aspects related to food and energy security and
resilient planning and policy-making processes
ii) to establish an integrative methodological
ecosystem combining cutting-edge analytical
research methods with integrative approaches
The key societal objectives:
For key stakeholders in relevant sectors of
comprehensive security:
i) a systemic view on critical water, food and
energy security aspects in Finland, including their
regional and global linkages
ii) enhanced capability to prepare Finland to
overcome food- and energy-related threats
iii) increased dialogue between key actors on
Finland’s internal and external security threats.
18. Resilience and
learning
Law and policy
Decision making
THEMES PROCESSES
Scenarios: from Failand to Winland
Co-creation with the researchers and stakeholders
COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY
Energy security
Food security
Water security and
climate
How Winland?
Quantitative (modelling, statistics, spatial analysis)
Qualitative (policy and legal analysis, problem structuring and decision-analysis)
20. Impact goals and key messages
DESIRED CHANGE:
Long-term goal: Stakeholders adapt new paradigm of comprehensive
security
Short-term goal: Specific strategy and legislative processes (such Security
strategy of Finland) take interconnections among energy, food and water
security into consideration
Outcome: Security strategy of Finland has adapted the multidimensional
concept of comprehensive security, stakeholder’s improved
understanding
KEY MESSAGES:
Energy, food and water lay the basis for the functioning of our society.
Security strategies recognize them sectionally but their
interdependencies and global, regional and local pressures have been
neglected. This negligence threatens Finland’s security and may lead to
collapse of Finnish society. Winland aims to prevent this collapse by
providing understanding of these interdepedencies and policy
recommendations to support resilient Finnish society.
21. Stakeholder analysis
KNOWLEDGE USER
Who: uses research in work / everyday
life
Inner circle: support Winland’s agenda
(certain ministries, companies, public
institutions for security supply,
research institution etc) - consultation
and co-creation
Outer circle: strong views about
security issues
What: targeted communication to
build a dialogue (certain ministries,
especially of interior and defense)
GATEKEEPER
Who: can promote or inhibit change in
society (decision-makers, key persons
from ministries)
What: continuous contact and big
effort
INFLUENCED
Who: persons who have limited power
but are influenced negatively or
positively by the knowledge
(consumers/citizens, NGO’s, regional
decision-makers and civil servants)
What: communication of agenda and
results
STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY BOARD
22. Deepen I
Awareness-raising
Policy
recommendations
from research
Solve
Solutions, policy
recommendation
Share
co-creation of key
messages,
dissemation
2016 2017 2017 2018 2018 2019
Preparedness exercise of the
National Emergy Supply
organization
Start
Research themes:
relevance,
knowledge needs,
end-products
Networks and capabilities
2016 2017 2018 2019
Stakeholders/process
analysis,
Impact goals
Key messages
Identifying and joining
public discussion
Policy impact
- building relations
- communication of results
III Subproject/researchers own interaction and co-creation throughout the project
II Joint interaction of the consortium
I Co-creation workshops
Deepen II
scenarios
Towards joint
Winland vision
Interaction activities
Scenarios:
Towards joint Failand vision
Collaboration with
ministries, NGO’s,
business etc.